Blink and it’s long gone

Blink and it’s long gone

A while ago we got together at the club and decided to make a foray into low cost high speed photography. A month or so ago we started building a high speed photography trigger Some of the tools needed were as as follows: Camera capable of running in bulb mode...

Our New Maker Room

You probably haven’t been to the club in a while(thanks for everything, COVID), so your recollection of the training room might be outdated. The room was originally configured as part of our club’s move into our Moorabbin premises, it was used for training...

Petrol Station Dot Matrix Display

We come from the school of thought that working surplus stuff might well be someone else’s refuse, but if it can be repurposed into something useful, then we’re generally up for the challenge. One of our members was able to recover some dot matrix signs which were...

Automated Hydroponics Enclosure

This project started out as a pile of old hardwood truss and framing timber from a house that was due to be demolished, the owners were giving away what was some nice quality wood hardwood(built back before cheap and light pine was the main goto material). Some of our...

Smart Picture Frame

When you have a modern resolution monitor that doesn’t work, but is in otherwise good physical condition, do you throw it away as e-waste? Not us, one of our members was in this situation, and after some searching online, found a replacement controller board, and now...